TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Sporting a huge, billowing Afro and a T-shirt with an anti-Iraq war slogan, Erykah Badu said she identifies with Palestinian hip-hop and expressed support for Louis Farrakhan before a crowd of Israeli fans and journalists Thursday.
“I come from across the water bringing light and hope,” the 36-year-old singer said. She is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on Saturday night.
America just lost its best and brightest hope for real change when John Edwards gave up the presidential ghost. Edwards did something that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and certainly none of the Republicans would dream of doing: He made poverty no longer a dirty word in the mouths of many, and that included Clinton and Obama, for a minute anyway.
John Edwards will end his presidential campaign today, a source close to the Edwards campaign confirmed today.
At this point, there’s nothing left to shock when it comes to the handling of post-Katrina matters involving FEMA.
It would certainly be a dream of Big Pharma and those who favor an authoritarian society if every would-be Tom Paine — or Crazy Horse, Tecumseh, Emma Goldman or Malcolm X — were diagnosed as a youngster with mental illness and quieted with a lifelong regimen of chill pills. The question is: Has this dream become reality?
Schools, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest, are looking more and more like they did during segregation.
Rep. Maxine Waters and other progressive lawmakers are tired of watching Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama dance around the issue of Iraq withdrawal. As the January 27 ‘Peace March on Washington’ approaches, leaders of the Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus plan to turn up the heat on the Democratic presidential frontrunners.
Clinton gets backing of Maxine Waters
Obama has eagerly embraced the notion of his racial transcendence. He has cast himself as the embodiment of a post-racial America and not so subtly compared his call for political civility to Martin Luther King’s dream of racial equality…They up its conceit with an optimistic chant Saturday night: “Race doesn’t matter!” If only it were so.
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be editor in chief of the online magazine, called The Root.
Though she still admires Bill and Hillary Clinton, the author is supporting Barack Obama because, she says, he has “a creative imagination which, coupled with brilliance, equals wisdom.”
Some performers are finding that early success online can turn into an album contract.
The power of the vote is going to be truly tested in South Carolina, a state where slavery had strong roots and now where women of color may actually be the deciding factor in the January 26, 2008 primary in South Carolina, a historical day indeed make not mistake about it.
In 1988, the possible nomination of a black man for president by the Democratic party caused a panic, now it might start a celebration.
Abdul-Jabbar said he doesn’t fault Magic Johnson for his endorsement. “Mrs. Clinton is not a bad choice, I just think Mr. Obama is the best choice.”
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